TIDAL claims they filed documents proving they had "both oral and written" agreements to stream the deceased artist's ENTIRE catalog of music. Oddly though, they didn't provide the documents to support their claims, even after several requests to do so.

Hmm…

As a result, Prince's music entities want Tidal to stop streaming and selling their artist's music and pay an unspecified amount in damages.

As for who REALLY owns the rights to Prince's entire catalog, Universal Music Publishing Group announced at the beginning of November that they were:

"the exclusive worldwide publishing administrator for Prince's entire song catalog, released and unreleased, effective immediately."

Of course, Tidal says otherwise, so we're not totally sure how this will all shake out since there's a federal lawsuit involved now!

Stay tuned for more updates as we wait to find out what company REALLY owns the rights Prince's music!

As we previously reported, Britney Spears' baby daddy has requested an increase in his $20K a month child support stipend. While it's said that Godney isn't THRILLED at the request, she's letting her poppa negotiate a deal with KFed.

And it appears that negotiations are well under way, though Mr. Spears is NOT impressed with his former son-in-law!